This is your life, Penny Nichols. Penny Nichols is a historical researcher working on a big budget film in the South of France when she get an urgent call. Her Aunt Penelope has just died, and Penny's presence is required in London for the reading of the will. From a rather lovely inheritance... With slim recall of her eccentric aunt, Penny's astonished to learn that not only is she a bona fide heiress-but she's also been invited to put her research skills to work. This time, the history she's researching happens to be her very own. To the irresistible dare of a lifetime... What she discovers about Aunt Penelope, a pair of wills, double lives, secret histories, and a family tree of vultures is about to sweep Penny and a long-lost cousin across France, over the hills of Italy, and throughout half of Europe on the adventure of several lifetimes. This is her life, her past, her chance at romance-and she's going to live it with the kind of passion she's always dreamed of...